I rebooted and was amazed to see Storage pop up as mounted, as well as in my home directory. Here's the issue though, when I open it, it appears empty. I have checked the code and it seems to be correct, what could be causing this?
any help would be greatly appreciated

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This is my 1tb second internal hard drive. It is located at /media/F1FD-B614.

Note that it's boot location is /dev/sdb1.

$ sudo blkid
/dev/sdb1: UUID="F1FD-B614" TYPE="vfat"

I find my boot location in the list. Now I have my UUID and my type info.

$ cd /etc
$ sudo gedit fstab

Now go to the bottom of fstab and enter the following lines. The first is just a
comment to remind you what the entries are. The second is an example of what you would get using values from the procedure above. You will undoubtedly get different values for UUID and mount locations, and perhaps also the boot location. Don't use the sample values. Use the values you get from your own terminal session. I had to go through about 10 different web sites to consolidate this information so nobody really gets the credit.

Save the file and reboot the system. It worked fine for me. When you get it working with its original location in the /media directory, you may be able to change its mount location, but what's the point- it already works.

UPDATE: I found that the above method has a problem in that 'Create new folder' and other options are greyed out. The reason for this is because the method creates a mount that only has root permissions. To fix this do the following in terminal:

$ id -u
1000
$ id -g
1000
$ cd /etc
$ gksudo gedit fstab

The first two commands give you your user id and group id respectively. The values must be added to the options field of the fstab entry for the drive to be auto-mounted. In fstab I modified my entry as follows: